How far we have regressed

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Toronto Sun Columnist: Eric Margolis

How far we have regressed. I remember flying the Atlantic in 1949 in a Boeing Stratocruiser with berths and a cocktail lounge. In 1994, I took a Pakistan Airways 707 from Lahore to Karachi, an original, unmodified 1959 model making its last passenger flight. I was flabbergasted.The aircraft had huge, widely-spaced seats in economy class, more capacious than today's first class seats.

I had forgotten that air travel used, in the dim past, to be comfortable and regarded as a gracious, highly civilized experience - unlike today's flying, which combines all the joys of George Bush's Guantanamo Prison gulag, and being vacuum-packed in a shipping container, with the risk of arrest or crashing.

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Comments

[miloseva.livejournal.com]

Wow! Isn't it so true though!?

[jduffy1535.livejournal.com]

Mr. Margolis also seems to have forgotten that most people also never saw the inside of an airplane. They took buses and trains when they had to travel long distances, or boats. They also did it much less frequently.